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Texas Schools Fall Short on Resources to Address Student Mental Health Issues Before They Become Crises

From Public Health Watch

It was February of 2020, and Andy Gonzalez, then a junior at Reagan High School in San Antonio, was on his lunch break when he noticed a burst of activity among the faculty. Then the news began to spread.

WA health department investigating Spokane hospital after girl’s suicide sparked public outcry

From InvestigateWest

The Washington Department of Health is investigating a 12-year-old’s suicide at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center last month that has prompted heartbreak and outrage from lawmakers, Spokane city councilmembers and behavioral health advocates statewide.

Religious Contacts, Student Volunteers Find Themselves in Midst of Mental Health Crisis

From Grady Newsource

Rylie Hamilton meets on Tuesday evenings with three female University of Georgia students to discuss a range of topics, from spirituality to navigating the dating sphere to test anxiety. Mental health is frequently part of the conversation.

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Inside New Mexico’s first diversion program for people who aren’t competent to stand trial

From New Mexico In Depth

James Ketcherside approached the bushes behind the Las Cruces fire station where the woman had been spending nights, bracing for resistance but determined to try.

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‘An ecosystem of dysfunction:’ West Virginia still has a child welfare worker shortage, and it’s taking a toll on foster kids and families

From Mountain State Spotlight

When Olivia Frausto was growing up with her father and sister in Martinsburg, sleeping on the floor and waking up to cockroaches scuttling on the walls, she remembers frequent visits from West Virginia Child Protective Services workers.

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West Virginia’s foster care system depends on grandfamilies. It does little to support their mental health needs.

From Mountain State Spotlight

After her son was grown, police would wake Judy Utley in the middle of the night and ask her to take in her two grandchildren and their two half-siblings.

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‘They’re all damaged.’ Despite progress, West Virginia is still failing to get foster kids the mental health help they need

From Mountain State Spotlight

By the time Sadie Kendall turned 18 and aged out of West Virginia’s foster care system, she had lived in more than two dozen places.

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Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response

For the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions.

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Former staff at Spokane youth psychiatric unit blame Providence for closure

For InvestigateWest

Early last year, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane painted a bleak picture of what would happen without its Psychiatric Center for Children and Adolescents.

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Some Oklahoma parents turn kids over to the state after struggling to get mental health care for them

From The Frontier

Tucked between a highway and railroad tracks just east of Tulsa’s downtown, the county’s only emergency youth shelter acts as a temporary home for some teenagers who have been abandoned by their parents and have nowhere else to go.

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Lack of oversight, coordination hinder efforts to reform Arizona’s rise in maternal mortality

From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

In 2019, federal officials dedicated more than $2 million to Arizona’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee as part of a national effort to confront alarmingly high rates of maternal deaths. The funding came with a mandate: Strengthen Arizona’s process for analyzing the cases of women who die during and shortly after pregnancy, and find ways to prevent future casualties.

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‘Not knowing where to go’: Montana’s sparse landscape for alcohol detox

From Montana Free Press

Thirty-three-year-old Whitefish resident Melanie Seefeldt has decided to stop drinking before. But, like many Montanans, Seefeldt knows a core truth about alcohol addiction. Wanting to stop is the easy part.

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